July 17, 1941 (6 pages)

viee president and general manager : 96 per cent on gold and 98 per cent ‘'sfdered one of the most modern cytanks range from’50 feet in diameter THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941. NEWADAC ITY. NUGGET PAGE FIVE ’ LATE MINING NEWS OF NEVADA COUNTY — OMEGA QUARTZ + MINE REOPENED ~The ( Omega Quartz Mine in Willow Valiey is being worked by Carl TreNevada vethick and associates of City. The ore is being Queen Lil mill. Company on the Omega. trucked Good Recovery Obtained In Lava Cap Cyanide Plant, Schiffner Reports . « Aecording to Otto KE. Schiffner, af; Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation, Nevada City, recovery in™ the new cyanide plant is running 95 to com silver. i ih plant, located at the Central “dine of the Lava Cap group is conanide plants in ‘California, and’ was designed and built under the supervision of Schiffner and Bert Hardin, mine chemist. Twenty eight steel and 16 feet deep to 14 feet in diameter and 8 feet deep. The unit has a capacity to handle 25 tons of mi}] concentrates daily and is thought to be capable of opeating on a_ large tonnage basis. Until the plant definitely proves its ability to handle concentates, it is being operated on tailings. and flotation middlings. Mill concentrates are being sent to the smelter at Selby. Diamond drilling continues from the sixth level of the Central shaft, but so far has not revealed any heretofore unknown ore bodies. Although the company continnes _to mill 400 tons of ore daily, some of the tonnage has been: from lower grade rock, cutting down the average in values, and as a result, it was voted to pass up the regular dividend due June 30. New Work Being Done At Original 16 to 1 The Original 16 to 1, one'of tha richest gold producers in California, is undetgoing improvements in the main shaft and surface workings. An all steel hoist frame with new drum heads has been installed at the famous Aleghany producer. Sinking and development work is being carried on in the main shaft, C; A, Bennetts of Nevada City is general manager of the property. In Sacramento— Rev. and Mrs. visiting in Sacramento, David Ralston are They will to the The Bradley Mining formerly held -an option ee bbins and Barrows Pie perating Charlotte ‘Pl lacer Mining Claims bE: if . The Charlotte placer P. W. Barrows. braces over tween the Middle and North Forks of the Yuba Rivers. Two main layers of gravel have been ‘found, the top a cemented formation and the lower one loose, with about 65 feet of lava between the layers. In order to facilitate operations. a “ompressor is being installed. A 300 foot shaft is being sunk to reach the bottom of the lower PLANS STARTED FOR ANNUAL TEAGUE PICNIC . ” Comkipiteess have baci named and have started functioning for the annua Mine Workers Protective League picnic, to be held as a benefit for widows and orphans of deceased members. at Lake Olympia August 13. H. H. Hubbard has been named general chairman of. the annual outing, and ‘will be assisted by Ed J. Jones as secretary and Fred J. Car-. ter as treasurer. On the following committees are the following: Soliciting: Frank Ducotey' and Thomas J. Perry. Grounds and transportation: Fanny Hocking, Sam Scoville. Publicity: Ed J. Jones and H. H. Hubbard. Music and dance: and Fred Carter. Refreshments: Ed Olsen, Fanny Hocking, Frank Ducotey, Sam Scoville, W. T. Terrill. Sports: Phil Angove, Jack Paide Food. Fred Carter. Games: Charles Rore, ry. Always an outstanding event in the community, the picnic is expected to draw a throng of people, with a bigger and better program of sports and entertainment offered. W. T. Terrill Jack Per* Improving In Tealth— Andrew Cary, millman of this city, is showing improvement in his fight to regain his health. Cary became ill while working with his brother, . George, on the Cary claims in the return Saturday. mine has been reopened by J. R. Robbins and The property .em160 acres of claims belevel of the! channe!, Surface work completed conbsists . of a buukhouse, office and black-' smith shop. TAYLOR MINES RESUME WORK have been resumed on the group of mines on the Town Talk. drifts have been started in on four. veins. Tayor of Grass Valley, have been leased to H. C. Dudley of Minnesota and M. I .Clark of Salt Lake City. Work Beine Done At . Yellowiacket Property John Hamnton Lashhaugh of NeYellowjacket Mine near Forest, Sierra County, is supervising considerable development work on_ the quartz ledge of the property. At present there is no work being lowjacket is owned by Dennis ghlan of Nevada City. North Star Boss _ Suffers Injuries CouArchie Rowe, boss at the North Star Mine, is in the Miners Hospital here with a broken ankle and other injuries sustained yesterday afternoon when a machine being hoisted. by a crane fell upon him. Rowe was taken to the hospital here by the Holmes ambulance. service. Subscribe for the Nugget LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS A. Baldwin, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned S. Leila Hoover as Executrix of the Estate. of E. A. Baldwin, deceased, to the Creditors of and all persons ‘having -claims against the said decedent to file them with -the necessary voucher within six (6) months after the first puwblication of this notice in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Nevada, or to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers within six (6) months after the first publication of thi$ notfée to’ the sa Exeeutrix at the office of H, Ward Sheldon, Attorney at Law, Union Publishing Building, Nevada City, California the same being her place of business in all matters connected with the estate of said E. A. Baldwin, deceased. Dated July 16th, 1941, S. LEILA HOOVER, Executrix of the estate of E. A. Baldwin, deceased. First publication July 17th, 1941. H. WARD SHELDON, Nevada City, California, Attorney for Executrix, Mt. Oro district. July 17,: 24, 31, Aug.: 7. Sketches Of The Gold Country #35 Wess : red Siege BLOOMFIELD HOTEL pen drawings by Cl David Magee. Sketches of the Gold Country embraces short, vivid recitals of the scenic and historical charm of Nevada City, Flat, Washington, Bloomfield, French Corral, You Bet Dog, Rough and Ready, and North San Juan. The book, written by Harley M. Leete, Jr., is ifford Warner. It Sells for 50 cents per copy It is on sale in Nevada City at the Nugget office, the Dickerman Drug Store, the Shamrock Cafe, and the Harris Drug Store. In Grass Valley, Samson’s sells the book. In Sacramento, store; in San Francisco at Paul Elder’s, Newbegin, John Howell and Grass Valley, Levinson’s Book Dutch and Red illustrated with Ridge. Open cuts were drained and . ‘dumped behind vada City, who has a lease on the’ done on the gravel channel. The Yel-. In the Matter of the Estate of E. . of ae ‘Hydraulic Mine O Operating On Relief Hill Townsite . . Ten vears ago Western Gold, Inc., It was reported here operations took over the Relief Hill hydraulic Taylor [mine and deve‘oped it. Now the mine can be the Yuba Narows, . debris dam near Smar‘vil e,. the mine slowly ; that debris from . is being operated as one of the larg-. The pronerties, owned by Charles! er p'ts behind the dam. Pofo-e onerations svserded jast week he-ause of lack of water the firm h°? two monitors wash‘ne an , 87 foot hank of gravel that extends ,in width for about 1.000 feet. Twen; fy one men worked three shifts every ‘day ‘o ‘eep the two modern type monitors entting into the bank. The mine is located but a short distance from North Bloomfield in Tevada Covnty. and in the ear'y days of California mining a.town of 1,200 persons stood on the site now being . washed away. It was the town of Relief Hill from which the mine was named. These pepole:are'said:to haye taken out much gold, but it was all mined by tunnels and shafts. Washing operations are continually uncovering the gold workings. Later some hydraulicking was done but on a small scale. Two small pits were on the property when Western Gold, Inc., took it over in 1931. Water is brought to the two No. of the deep ditch through which the sluice is arranged. vreparation for “he sluice for a faster water, civing In addition, the Relief Hill is us ing a. D-4 Caterpillar equipved with . a bulldozer to mine the areas. not reached by the moni‘ors and for the final clean up next to the bedrock. of five acres in 7 to 10 days. Previously. when this was done by hand it would take at leastone month. Great care is exercised to determine that the area mined by the Caterpillar is of enough value to be worth while. Continuing panning tests are made ofthe soil as it is torn loose by the machine. C. E. Clark is superintendent at the mine with his office in North Bloomfield. A. B. Landsburg is the foreman, Western Gold, Inc.; has its main .office at 943 Russ Building, This work is in! move drop to run off of the]. ‘Deer Creek. . tum Valley Properties cing Reopened y . sa) { The Bowman Mine in Plum Valley ; near Alleghany is being worked by . William Ennis under a lease and Ol esda He is using a pump to furnish . pressure for hydraulicking on — the porphyry ledge. Values are increasing as depth is gained Ennis states, In the same district Carl Johnson and D. H. Casey have acquired the Moseuvito group of claims, a gravel . Property that was worked 60 years . ago. Old timers, it is reported, workof . The Caterpillar cleans up at the rate. °@ the claims, using rainwater for washing and averaged over $3 a day. Bank caveins compelled them to cease work. Water rights from the old Pike City ditch have been obtained for the mine, GETTING GOOD PANNING RETURNS Artie Haley and Clarence Terry, school children of this city, are obtaining fair results from panning’ on It is the first mining venture of the two boys and they San Francisco, W. H. Taylor is president and George Brent is secretary. are filed with enthusiasm over the results of their pannings. 51 Joshua Hendy monitors by a 21mile ditch owned by the firm. The flow is from Poormans Creek near Graniteville. It comes to a pipe reservoir near the mine and is then tak. en to the pit by a 22 inch pine. This pipe tapers to a 15 inch pipe leading to each monitor. From 200 to 300 feet of the smaller pipe are used between the monitors and the 2? inch pipe. There are 2,850 feet of the bi: pipe carrying the water into the pit. water, under 270 foot pressure are. delivered. Six and ‘seven inch nozzles play the water to the gravel banks., Plans are now underway for a ae age system that will provide enough water to work the monitors for eight to nine months each year. ‘ This vo>-r, because theve is a stom. . age dam for the tailings, the mine is . putting out as much in 8 hours as it used to in 36 hours. The Relief Hill has been worked five of the ten years Western Gold has owned it, but only . on a small seale as it was necessary . to hold the tailings in a creek below the mine. ‘Between 3500 and 4000 cubic yards of gravel are washed down from the mountain and sent through the sluices each day. The sluice is 1800 feet in length with 388 feet in an outlet tunnel. It is four feet wide and is equipped with 40 pound Trail for riffles. The gravel bank at-the mine is easy to wash for there is very little of the cemented type of material which requires a lot of blasting. The major portion of the necessary blasting is the ‘‘bulldozing”’ of big rocks, which the monitors cannot send down the sluices. These are broken up with 40 per cent’ dynamite put on with a mud cap. There also are some beds of pipe clay which must be. broken loose with a ‘stick of dynamite and here again 40 per cent gelatine is used. In this case a hole is drilled straight into’ the bed and the dynamite is placed deep in it. At present, blasting. operations are being carried on along the two side walls From: Press Section, Defense Savings Staff, 5 Treasury Department, Washingion, D. C. For Immediate Release ‘sluice boxes is now proceeding. Each day 1,300 miners inches ofOmega Mine hydraulic operatior S. have halted for the season berauce . OMEGA HYDRAULIC MINE OPERATIONS CLOSE FOR SEASON vears operation. Jack Little is general manager of the hydraulic preperty and Theodore of lack of water. The cleaning of the} Larsen, veteran hydraulic mining exThe Omega had been working Bon the past six months with three moni-j. Hones To See Avec . pert, is superintendent. * tors. During those months thousands. In In Operation Again ee S of yards of gravel have been washed through the sluice boxes. The exact ; amount of gravel worked and _ the “. e F. Utter of Los Angeles, principal owner of the Arctic Mine above. amount of gold obtained will not be} Washington is seeking to straighten known until after’ the completed. cleanup is-™ out ‘financial difficulties which have arisen against the property since it The Omega began opeating short-. was operated on a lease by the Kemly after the completion of the Upmerer Development Company. per Narrows Debris Dam near SmartLiens against the Arctic were filed ville, constructed to allow resumr, by the Alpha Stores, Ltd., and the tion of hydraulic mining after yer act went into effect. During the hight of the Omega employed 50 men. Some of the men will be* employed during the off season build-.: ing flumes and ditches. production a Clinch Mercantile Company. shutdown since 1884 when the Saw-! Utter hopes to see the Arctie op-(erating again in the near future. in excess of; Returns From Vacation— John Mann, general manager of the Empire-North Star and Pennsylvania Mines in Grass Valley, has ~ It is believed there is sufficient’ resumed his duties following a short gravel at the Omega Mine for twenty vacation. Mining Supplies iy Mining Supplies —AGENTS FOR INGERSOLL RAND COMPANY CRUCIBLE STEEL COMPANY AIR REDUCTION SALES CO. Household Goods, Furniture and All Kinds of Hrrdware and Mining Supplies OUR STOCKS AND PRICES ENTITLE US TO ’ YOUR CONSIDERATION ALPHA STORES, LTD. Nevada City Phone 5 COLUMBIA WIRE ROPE Grass Valley Phone 88 UNITED STATES SAVINGS AMERICA ON GuarD! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original “Minute Man” statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank a vital ‘America's defen defense preparations. WE SUPPLY— * Complete Mining Plants Fabricated Mining Machinery of Every Kind STEEL SIDE AND —ELECTRIC AND ACETYLENE WELDING— We are equipped to make All Kinds of Machine Repairs ' WE CAST AND REPLACE BROKEN PARTS : _ The Standad Mine of the Indian Valley Mining Companys and the Cherokee Mine, both near Greenville, County, were fabricated and installed by us. MINERS FOUNDRY & SUPPLY C0, Corner Spring and Bridge Streets — END DUMP CARS Plumas 2

viee president and general manager : 96 per cent on gold and 98 per cent ‘'sfdered one of the most modern cytanks range from’50 feet in diameter THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941. NEWADAC ITY. NUGGET PAGE FIVE ’ LATE MINING NEWS OF NEVADA COUNTY — OMEGA QUARTZ + MINE REOPENED ~The ( Omega Quartz Mine in Willow Valiey is being worked by Carl TreNevada vethick and associates of City. The ore is being Queen Lil mill. Company on the Omega. trucked Good Recovery Obtained In Lava Cap Cyanide Plant, Schiffner Reports . « Aecording to Otto KE. Schiffner, af; Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation, Nevada City, recovery in™ the new cyanide plant is running 95 to com silver. i ih plant, located at the Central “dine of the Lava Cap group is conanide plants in ‘California, and’ was designed and built under the supervision of Schiffner and Bert Hardin, mine chemist. Twenty eight steel and 16 feet deep to 14 feet in diameter and 8 feet deep. The unit has a capacity to handle 25 tons of mi}] concentrates daily and is thought to be capable of opeating on a_ large tonnage basis. Until the plant definitely proves its ability to handle concentates, it is being operated on tailings. and flotation middlings. Mill concentrates are being sent to the smelter at Selby. Diamond drilling continues from the sixth level of the Central shaft, but so far has not revealed any heretofore unknown ore bodies. Although the company continnes _to mill 400 tons of ore daily, some of the tonnage has been: from lower grade rock, cutting down the average in values, and as a result, it was voted to pass up the regular dividend due June 30. New Work Being Done At Original 16 to 1 The Original 16 to 1, one'of tha richest gold producers in California, is undetgoing improvements in the main shaft and surface workings. An all steel hoist frame with new drum heads has been installed at the famous Aleghany producer. Sinking and development work is being carried on in the main shaft, C; A, Bennetts of Nevada City is general manager of the property. In Sacramento— Rev. and Mrs. visiting in Sacramento, David Ralston are They will to the The Bradley Mining formerly held -an option ee bbins and Barrows Pie perating Charlotte ‘Pl lacer Mining Claims bE: if . The Charlotte placer P. W. Barrows. braces over tween the Middle and North Forks of the Yuba Rivers. Two main layers of gravel have been ‘found, the top a cemented formation and the lower one loose, with about 65 feet of lava between the layers. In order to facilitate operations. a “ompressor is being installed. A 300 foot shaft is being sunk to reach the bottom of the lower PLANS STARTED FOR ANNUAL TEAGUE PICNIC . ” Comkipiteess have baci named and have started functioning for the annua Mine Workers Protective League picnic, to be held as a benefit for widows and orphans of deceased members. at Lake Olympia August 13. H. H. Hubbard has been named general chairman of. the annual outing, and ‘will be assisted by Ed J. Jones as secretary and Fred J. Car-. ter as treasurer. On the following committees are the following: Soliciting: Frank Ducotey' and Thomas J. Perry. Grounds and transportation: Fanny Hocking, Sam Scoville. Publicity: Ed J. Jones and H. H. Hubbard. Music and dance: and Fred Carter. Refreshments: Ed Olsen, Fanny Hocking, Frank Ducotey, Sam Scoville, W. T. Terrill. Sports: Phil Angove, Jack Paide Food. Fred Carter. Games: Charles Rore, ry. Always an outstanding event in the community, the picnic is expected to draw a throng of people, with a bigger and better program of sports and entertainment offered. W. T. Terrill Jack Per* Improving In Tealth— Andrew Cary, millman of this city, is showing improvement in his fight to regain his health. Cary became ill while working with his brother, . George, on the Cary claims in the return Saturday. mine has been reopened by J. R. Robbins and The property .em160 acres of claims belevel of the! channe!, Surface work completed conbsists . of a buukhouse, office and black-' smith shop. TAYLOR MINES RESUME WORK have been resumed on the group of mines on the Town Talk. drifts have been started in on four. veins. Tayor of Grass Valley, have been leased to H. C. Dudley of Minnesota and M. I .Clark of Salt Lake City. Work Beine Done At . Yellowiacket Property John Hamnton Lashhaugh of NeYellowjacket Mine near Forest, Sierra County, is supervising considerable development work on_ the quartz ledge of the property. At present there is no work being lowjacket is owned by Dennis ghlan of Nevada City. North Star Boss _ Suffers Injuries CouArchie Rowe, boss at the North Star Mine, is in the Miners Hospital here with a broken ankle and other injuries sustained yesterday afternoon when a machine being hoisted. by a crane fell upon him. Rowe was taken to the hospital here by the Holmes ambulance. service. Subscribe for the Nugget LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS A. Baldwin, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned S. Leila Hoover as Executrix of the Estate. of E. A. Baldwin, deceased, to the Creditors of and all persons ‘having -claims against the said decedent to file them with -the necessary voucher within six (6) months after the first puwblication of this notice in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Nevada, or to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers within six (6) months after the first publication of thi$ notfée to’ the sa Exeeutrix at the office of H, Ward Sheldon, Attorney at Law, Union Publishing Building, Nevada City, California the same being her place of business in all matters connected with the estate of said E. A. Baldwin, deceased. Dated July 16th, 1941, S. LEILA HOOVER, Executrix of the estate of E. A. Baldwin, deceased. First publication July 17th, 1941. H. WARD SHELDON, Nevada City, California, Attorney for Executrix, Mt. Oro district. July 17,: 24, 31, Aug.: 7. Sketches Of The Gold Country #35 Wess : red Siege BLOOMFIELD HOTEL pen drawings by Cl David Magee. Sketches of the Gold Country embraces short, vivid recitals of the scenic and historical charm of Nevada City, Flat, Washington, Bloomfield, French Corral, You Bet Dog, Rough and Ready, and North San Juan. The book, written by Harley M. Leete, Jr., is ifford Warner. It Sells for 50 cents per copy It is on sale in Nevada City at the Nugget office, the Dickerman Drug Store, the Shamrock Cafe, and the Harris Drug Store. In Grass Valley, Samson’s sells the book. In Sacramento, store; in San Francisco at Paul Elder’s, Newbegin, John Howell and Grass Valley, Levinson’s Book Dutch and Red illustrated with Ridge. Open cuts were drained and . ‘dumped behind vada City, who has a lease on the’ done on the gravel channel. The Yel-. In the Matter of the Estate of E. . of ae ‘Hydraulic Mine O Operating On Relief Hill Townsite . . Ten vears ago Western Gold, Inc., It was reported here operations took over the Relief Hill hydraulic Taylor [mine and deve‘oped it. Now the mine can be

the Yuba Narows, . debris dam near Smar‘vil e,. the mine slowly ; that debris from . is being operated as one of the larg-. The pronerties, owned by Charles! er p'ts behind the dam. Pofo-e onerations svserded jast week he-ause of lack of water the firm h°? two monitors wash‘ne an , 87 foot hank of gravel that extends ,in width for about 1.000 feet. Twen; fy one men worked three shifts every ‘day ‘o ‘eep the two modern type monitors entting into the bank. The mine is located but a short distance from North Bloomfield in Tevada Covnty. and in the ear'y days of California mining a.town of 1,200 persons stood on the site now being . washed away. It was the town of Relief Hill from which the mine was named. These pepole:are'said:to haye taken out much gold, but it was all mined by tunnels and shafts. Washing operations are continually uncovering the gold workings. Later some hydraulicking was done but on a small scale. Two small pits were on the property when Western Gold, Inc., took it over in 1931. Water is brought to the two No. of the deep ditch through which the sluice is arranged. vreparation for “he sluice for a faster water, civing In addition, the Relief Hill is us ing a. D-4 Caterpillar equipved with . a bulldozer to mine the areas. not reached by the moni‘ors and for the final clean up next to the bedrock. of five acres in 7 to 10 days. Previously. when this was done by hand it would take at leastone month. Great care is exercised to determine that the area mined by the Caterpillar is of enough value to be worth while. Continuing panning tests are made ofthe soil as it is torn loose by the machine. C. E. Clark is superintendent at the mine with his office in North Bloomfield. A. B. Landsburg is the foreman, Western Gold, Inc.; has its main .office at 943 Russ Building, This work is in! move drop to run off of the]. ‘Deer Creek. . tum Valley Properties cing Reopened y . sa) { The Bowman Mine in Plum Valley ; near Alleghany is being worked by . William Ennis under a lease and Ol esda He is using a pump to furnish . pressure for hydraulicking on — the porphyry ledge. Values are increasing as depth is gained Ennis states, In the same district Carl Johnson and D. H. Casey have acquired the Moseuvito group of claims, a gravel . Property that was worked 60 years . ago. Old timers, it is reported, workof . The Caterpillar cleans up at the rate. °@ the claims, using rainwater for washing and averaged over $3 a day. Bank caveins compelled them to cease work. Water rights from the old Pike City ditch have been obtained for the mine, GETTING GOOD PANNING RETURNS Artie Haley and Clarence Terry, school children of this city, are obtaining fair results from panning’ on It is the first mining venture of the two boys and they San Francisco, W. H. Taylor is president and George Brent is secretary. are filed with enthusiasm over the results of their pannings. 51 Joshua Hendy monitors by a 21mile ditch owned by the firm. The flow is from Poormans Creek near Graniteville. It comes to a pipe reservoir near the mine and is then tak. en to the pit by a 22 inch pine. This pipe tapers to a 15 inch pipe leading to each monitor. From 200 to 300 feet of the smaller pipe are used between the monitors and the 2? inch pipe. There are 2,850 feet of the bi: pipe carrying the water into the pit. water, under 270 foot pressure are. delivered. Six and ‘seven inch nozzles play the water to the gravel banks., Plans are now underway for a ae age system that will provide enough water to work the monitors for eight to nine months each year. ‘ This vo>-r, because theve is a stom. . age dam for the tailings, the mine is . putting out as much in 8 hours as it used to in 36 hours. The Relief Hill has been worked five of the ten years Western Gold has owned it, but only . on a small seale as it was necessary . to hold the tailings in a creek below the mine. ‘Between 3500 and 4000 cubic yards of gravel are washed down from the mountain and sent through the sluices each day. The sluice is 1800 feet in length with 388 feet in an outlet tunnel. It is four feet wide and is equipped with 40 pound Trail for riffles. The gravel bank at-the mine is easy to wash for there is very little of the cemented type of material which requires a lot of blasting. The major portion of the necessary blasting is the ‘‘bulldozing”’ of big rocks, which the monitors cannot send down the sluices. These are broken up with 40 per cent’ dynamite put on with a mud cap. There also are some beds of pipe clay which must be. broken loose with a ‘stick of dynamite and here again 40 per cent gelatine is used. In this case a hole is drilled straight into’ the bed and the dynamite is placed deep in it. At present, blasting. operations are being carried on along the two side walls From: Press Section, Defense Savings Staff, 5 Treasury Department, Washingion, D. C. For Immediate Release ‘sluice boxes is now proceeding. Each day 1,300 miners inches ofOmega Mine hydraulic operatior S. have halted for the season berauce . OMEGA HYDRAULIC MINE OPERATIONS CLOSE FOR SEASON vears operation. Jack Little is general manager of the hydraulic preperty and Theodore of lack of water. The cleaning of the} Larsen, veteran hydraulic mining exThe Omega had been working Bon the past six months with three moni-j. Hones To See Avec . pert, is superintendent. * tors. During those months thousands. In In Operation Again ee S of yards of gravel have been washed through the sluice boxes. The exact ; amount of gravel worked and _ the “. e F. Utter of Los Angeles, principal owner of the Arctic Mine above. amount of gold obtained will not be} Washington is seeking to straighten known until after’ the completed. cleanup is-™ out ‘financial difficulties which have arisen against the property since it The Omega began opeating short-. was operated on a lease by the Kemly after the completion of the Upmerer Development Company. per Narrows Debris Dam near SmartLiens against the Arctic were filed ville, constructed to allow resumr, by the Alpha Stores, Ltd., and the tion of hydraulic mining after yer act went into effect. During the hight of the Omega employed 50 men. Some of the men will be* employed during the off season build-.: ing flumes and ditches. production a Clinch Mercantile Company. shutdown since 1884 when the Saw-! Utter hopes to see the Arctie op-(erating again in the near future. in excess of; Returns From Vacation— John Mann, general manager of the Empire-North Star and Pennsylvania Mines in Grass Valley, has ~ It is believed there is sufficient’ resumed his duties following a short gravel at the Omega Mine for twenty vacation. Mining Supplies iy Mining Supplies —AGENTS FOR INGERSOLL RAND COMPANY CRUCIBLE STEEL COMPANY AIR REDUCTION SALES CO. Household Goods, Furniture and All Kinds of Hrrdware and Mining Supplies OUR STOCKS AND PRICES ENTITLE US TO ’ YOUR CONSIDERATION ALPHA STORES, LTD. Nevada City Phone 5 COLUMBIA WIRE ROPE Grass Valley Phone 88 UNITED STATES SAVINGS AMERICA ON GuarD! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original “Minute Man” statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank a vital ‘America's defen defense preparations. WE SUPPLY— * Complete Mining Plants Fabricated Mining Machinery of Every Kind STEEL SIDE AND —ELECTRIC AND ACETYLENE WELDING— We are equipped to make All Kinds of Machine Repairs ' WE CAST AND REPLACE BROKEN PARTS : _ The Standad Mine of the Indian Valley Mining Companys and the Cherokee Mine, both near Greenville, County, were fabricated and installed by us. MINERS FOUNDRY & SUPPLY C0, Corner Spring and Bridge Streets — END DUMP CARS Plumas 2